Homebase taps into Neptune Software DX platform

Homebase has chosen Neptune Software’s ‘low-code’ DX platform to support the development of IT solutions that will help simplify customer ordering, product inventory and supplier management.

The first application focuses on a mobile app that can live on an employee’s own device and deliver accurate product look-up functionality. Next on the agenda is a digital application to help employees and customers specify and order complex products such as bathrooms and kitchens much more easily, incorporating delivery scheduling, warehousing and stock integration.

The DX platform connects legacy apps using APIs and frees Homebase from a reliance on highly specialised developers that can code in languages like ABAP (the language specific to SAP). The retailer says that it can now innovate more quickly, as well as integrate emerging technologies like AR and AI.

Paul Cannon, Director of IT at Homebase, comments: "We want to empower our teams with the right, cutting edge technology which allows them to deliver the best possible customer service. Gone are the days of complex integration projects that take years to complete. Now we build a new experience, roll it out to a single store, and if it works it can be live across the business in weeks."